§ 2. Application. PUBLIC BUILDINGS LAW. L. 1913, ch. 816. § 2. Trustees of public buildings.-The governor, president of the senate and speaker of the assembly shall be trustees of public buildings, which include the state hall, geological hall, capitol and executive mansion, with the buildings, grounds and premises adjacent or appurtenant thereto or connected therewith belonging to the state, so far as such grounds and premises now or hereafter shall be laid out and completed, and the entire public sidewalks bordering upon the capitol grounds and parks for the purpose of keeping such sidewalks at all times clear of snow, ice, dirt and all other obstructions; and the streets bordering upon such grounds and parks to the center line thereof for the purpose of keeping the same clean. (Amended by L. 1913, ch. 815, in effect December 16, 1913.) WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION LAW. L. 1913, ch. 816.—An act in relation to assuring compensation for injuries or death of certain employees in the course of their employment and repealing certain sections of the labor law relating thereto, constituting chapter sixty-seven of the consolidated laws. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: CHAPTER 67 OF THE CONSOLIDATED LAWS. WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION LAW. Article 1. Short title, application, defintions. (§§ 1-3). 2. Compensation. (§§ 10-34). 3. Security for compensation. (§§ 50-54). 4. State workmen's compensation commission. (§§ 60-76). 5. State insurance fund. (§§. 90-105). 6. Miscellaneous provisions. (§§ 110-119). 7. Laws repealed; when to take effect. (§§ 130-131). ARTICLE 1. SHORT TITLE; APPLICATION; DEFINITIONS. Section 1. Short title. 2. Application. 3. Definitions. Section 1. Short title. This chapter shall be known as the "workmen's compensation law." § 2. Application.-Compensation provided for in this chapter shall be payable for injuries sustained or death incurred by employees engaged in the following hazardous employments: Group 1. The operation, including construction and repair, of railways operated by steam, electric or other motive power, street railways, L. 1913, ch. 816. Application. § 2. and incline railways, but not their construction when constructed by any person other than the company which owns or operates the railway, in-cluding work of express, sleeping, parlor and dining car employees on railway trains. Group 2. Construction and operation of railways not included in group one. Group 3. The operation, including construction and repair, of car shops, machine shops, steam and power plants, and other works for the purposes of any such railway, or used or to be used in connection with it when operated, constructed or repaired by the company which owns or operates the railway. Group 4. The operation, including construction and repair, of car shops, machine shops, steam and power plants, not included in group three. Group 5. The operation, including construction and repair, of telephone lines and wires for the purposes of the business of a telephone company, or used or to be used in connection with its business, when constructed or operated by the company. Group 6. The operation, including construction and repair, of telegraph lines and wires for the purposes of the business of a telegraph company, or used or to be used in connection with its business, when constructed or operated by the company. Group 7. Construction of telegraph and telephone lines not included. in groups five and six. Group 8. The operation, within or without the state, including repair, of vessels other than vessels of other states or countries used in interstate or foreign commerce, when operated or repaired by the company. Group 9. Shipbuilding, including construction and repair in a shipyard or elsewhere, not included in group eight. Group 10. Longshore work, including the loading or unloading of cargoes or parts of cargoes of grain, coal, ore, freight, general merchandise, lumber or other products or materials, or moving or handling the same on any dock, platform or place, or in any warehouse or other place of storage. Group 11. Dredging, subaqueous or caisson construction, and pile driving. Group 12. Construction, installation or operation of electric light and electric power lines, dynamos, or appliances, and power transmission lines. Group 13. Paving; sewer and subway construction, work under compressed air, excavation, tunneling and shaft sinking, well digging, laying and repair of underground pipes, cables and wires, not included in other groups. Group 14. Lumbering; logging, river-driving, rafting, booming, saw mills, shingle mills, lath mills; manufacture of veneer and of excelsior; manufacture of staves, spokes, or headings. Group 15. Pulp and paper mills. Group 16. Manufacture of furniture, interior woodwork, organs, pianos, § 2. Application. L. 1913, ch. 816. piano actions, canoes, small boats, coffins, wicker and rattan ware; upholstering; manufacture of mattresses or bed springs. Group 17. Planing mills, sash and door factories, manufacture of wooden and corrugated paper boxes, cheese boxes, mouldings, window and door screens, window shades, carpet sweepers, wooden toys, articles and wares or baskets. Group 18. Mining; reduction of ores and smelting; preparation of metals or minerals. Group 19. Quarries; sand, shale, clay or gravel pits, lime kilns; manufacture of brick, tile, terra-cotta, fire-proofing, or paving blocks, manufacture of calcium carbide, cement, asphalt or paving material. Group 20. Manufacture of glass, glass products, glassware, porcelain or pottery. Group 21. Iron, steel or metal foundries; rolling mills; manufacture of castings, forgings, heavy engines, locomotives, machinery, safes, anchors, cables, rails, shafting, wires, tubing, pipes, sheet metal, boilers, furnaces, stoves, structural steel, iron or metal. Group 22. Operation and repair of stationary engines and boilers, not included in other groups. Group 23. Manufacture of small castings or forgings, metal wares, instruments, utensils and articles, hardware, nails, wire goods, screens, bolts, metal beds, sanitary, water, gas or electric fixtures, light machines, typewriters, cash registers, adding machines, carriage mountings, bicycles, metal toys, tools, cutlery, instruments, photographic cameras and supplies, sheet metal products, buttons. Group 24. Manufacture of agricultural implements, threshing machines, traction engines, wagons, carriages, sleighs, vehicles, automobiles, motor trucks, toy wagons, sleighs or baby carriages. Group 25. Manufacture of explosives and dangerous chemicals, corrosive acids or salts, ammonia, gasoline, petroleum, petroleum products, celluloid, gas, charcoal, artificial ice, gun powder or ammunition. Group 26. Manufacture of paint, color, varnish, oil, japans, turpentine, printing ink, printers' rollers, tar, tarred, pitched or asphalted paper. Group 27. Distilleries, breweries; manufacture of spirituous or malt liquors, alcohol, wine, mineral water or soda waters. Group 28. Manufacture of drugs and chemicals, not specified in group twenty-five, medicines, dyes, extracts, pharmaceutical or toilet preparations, soaps, candles, perfumes, non-corrosive acids or chemical preparations, fertilizers, including garbage disposal plants; shoe blacking or polish. Group 29. Milling; manufacture of cereals, or cattle foods, warehousing; storage; operation of grain elevators. Group 30. Packing houses, abattoirs, manufacture or preparation of meats or meat products or glue. Group 31. Tanneries. L. 1913, ch. 816. Application. § 2. Group 32. Manufacture of leather goods and products, belting, saddlery, harness, trunks, valises, boots, shoes, gloves, umbrellas, rubber goods, rubber shoes, tubing, tires or hose. Group 33. Canning or preparation of fruit, vegetables, fish or food stuffs; pickle factories and sugar refineries. Group 34. Bakeries, including manufacture of crackers and biscuits, manufacture of confectionery, spices or condiments. Group 35. Manufacture of tobacco, cigars, cigarettes or tobacco products. Group 36. Manufacture of cordage, ropes, fibre, brooms or brushes; manilla or hemp products. Group 37. Flax mills; manufacture of textiles or fabrics, spinning, weaving and knitting manufactories; manufacture of yarn, thread, hosiery, cloth, blankets, carpets, canvas, bags, shoddy or felt. Group 38. Manufacture of men's or women's clothing, white wear, shirts, collars, corsets, hats, caps, furs or robes. Group 39. Power laundries; dyeing, cleaning or bleaching. Group 40. Printing, photo-engraving, stereotyping, electrotyping, lithographing, embossing; manufacture of stationery, paper, cardboard boxes, bags, or wall-paper; and book-binding. Group 41. The operation, otherwise than on tracks, on streets, highways, or elsewhere of cars, trucks, wagons or other vehicles, and rollers and engines, propelled by steam, gas, gasoline, electric, mechanical or other power or drawn by horses or mules. Group 42. Stone cutting or dressing; marble works; manufacture of artificial stone; steel building and bridge constructions; installation of elevators, fire escapes, boilers, engines or heavy machinery; brick-laying, tilelaying, mason work, stone-setting, concrete work, plastering; and manufacture of concrete blocks; structural carpentry; painting, decorating or renovating; sheet metal work; roofing; construction, repair and demolition of buildings and bridges; plumbing, sanitary or heating engineering; installation and covering of pipes or boilers. § 3. Definitions.-As used in this chapter, 1. "Hazardous employment" means a work or occupation described in section two of this chapter. 2. "Commission" means the state workmen's compensation commission, as constituted by this chapter. 3. "Employer," except when otherwise expressly stated, means a person, partnership, association, corporation, and the legal representatives of a deceased employer, or the receiver or trustee of a person, partnership, association or corporation, employing workmen in hazardous employments; but does not include the state or a municipal corporation or other political subdvision thereof. 4. "Employee" means a person who is engaged in a hazardous employment in the service of an employer carrying on or conducting the same upon the premises or at the plant, or in the course of his employment § 2. Application. L. 1913, ch. 816. away from the plant of his employer; and shall not include farm laborers or domestic servants. 5. "Employment" includes employment only in a trade, business or occupation carried on by the employer for pecuniary gain. 6. "Compensation" means the money allowance payable to an employee or to his dependents as provided for in this chapter, and includes funeral benefits provided therein. 7. "Injury" and "personal injury" mean only accidental injuries. arising out of and in the course of employment and such disease or infection as may naturally and unavoidably result therefrom. 8. "Death" when mentioned as a basis for the right to compensation means only death resulting from such injury. 9. "Wages" means the money rate at which the service rendered is recompensed under the contract of hiring in force at the time of the accident, including the reasonable value of board, rent, housing, lodging or similar advantage received from the employer. 10. "State fund" means the state insurance fund provided for in article five of this chapter. 11. "Child" shall include a posthumous child and a child legally adopted prior to the injury of the employee. 12. "Insurance carrier" shall include the state fund, stock corporations. or mutual associations with which employers have insured, and employers permitted to pay compensation directly under the provisions of subdivision three of section fifty. 29. Subrogation to remedies of employee. 30. Revenues or benefits from other sources not to affect compensation. |